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Chapter 8:The WAR for INDEPENDENCE

At WAR with the HOMELAND Lesson #1

• Fighting at Lextington and Concord (called all colonial leaders)

1. Second Continental Congress

• Patroits sent a letter called the olive branch petition to king George the third repealed the intolerable acts
• formed colonial army
• Congress ask colonies send soldiers
• Congress chose Goerge Washington as general
• Second Continental Congress asked for money to support the new army
• Words of Patrick Henry inspired unity among the colonists
• Second Continental Congress stand for unity of the 13 colonies

  Goerge Washington

2. The Continental Army 

• army had first major battle
• colonists drove the british back twice
• many soldiers had no guns
• some soldiers did not fight the way a europeon army would
• with Washingtons help were made into the first colonal army
• the contanental's went to battle with the powreful army in the world
• the contanental army held there ground and were very very poor

3. The British Advantage

• The british army mostly made of skilled soldiers and hired soldiers and Native American allies some soldiers were Hessians
• The british has problems such as getting supplies over the Atlantic Ocean
• The british used there better fighters to take advanage
• General Washington had no more than 10,000 soldiers
• most of the americans enlisted in,or joined,the army for one year at a time
• some of the continentals would go home to their farms at harvest time



The Decision for Independence Lesson #2

• The colonists who thought that their problems could be solved without war starting preparing for war

1. The First Steps

• Thomas Paine published a phamplet called "Common Sense"
• In common sense he claimed King George III as a bully and quetion his authority to rule.
• Thaimas paine thought people should rule themselues.
• He called for a revolution for an change of goverment.
• He suid the colonies should clut their tieswith the british goverment and set up their own goverment
• over the time area of independence sounded good to many colonists and the Second Continental Congress
• Thoms said the colonies no longer owed loyalty to king
• Not all colonists were ready for independence
• took a long time agree for all colonies on independence
• 17 days to write Declaration of Independence

2. Writing the Declaration

• Thomas Jefferson wanted the colonists win for freedom
• Jefferson planned the Decloration in several parts
• First explains why the Decloration was needed,second part lists main ideas from colonists about goverment,
• third part lists the colonist's complaints,last part jefferson wrote the reasons why the 13 colonies no loger part of british
• On July 2,1776, Richard Henry Lee's idea about cutting ties with Britain was approved of without a single "no"

Americans Take Sides Lesson #3

1.Churches and the war

• Religion offected people view on independrce
• Pete Muhlenberg was a Loyalist
• Anglican church members supported the king
• Quakers are against all wars

2.Women and War

• Women worked for in inpendence in many ways
• Women also took part in the war
• Not all women were Patriots
• Some women brought supplies and fought for the British

3.Native Amercians and the War

• Some of the Indians fought the British and some fought the Patriots

Samuel's Choice Lesson #4

• Samuel chose to help the Patriots
• In the summer of 1776,General George Washington and the continental army was forced to retreat from Brooklyn as the British approached
• Isaac Van Ditmis turned all of his property over to the army of the Contenental Congress in exchange for his freedom

Victory and Independence Lesson #5

• After General George Washington's retreat